The sale was seen as a way for AXA to decrease its exposure to volatility, allowing it to concentrate on its core insurance business.
Even for countries with a relatively low trade exposure, heightened volatility and uncertainty are likely to lead to weaker growth through delayed investment and consumer spending and weaker employment".
The approach helped reduce Paramount's exposure to the volatility of the film business, and many studios subsequently emulated the strategy.
"All of the banks affected by today's actions have significant exposure to the volatility and risk of outsized losses inherent to capital markets activities," Moody's global banking managing director, Greg Bauer, said in a statement.
The acquisition would catapult S.A.B., the maker of Castle Lager, to the world's second-largest brewer, behind the Anheuser-Busch Companies, from its current position as No. 4. It would also allow S.A.B. to reduce its exposure to the volatility of the rand, the South African currency, which has experienced a steep decline in value recently.
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The company is less dependent on copper than some of its competitors and therefore has had less exposure to the volatility in the metal's price in recent weeks, driven by fears that reduced consumer confidence in the wake of the credit crisis would hit demand.
As a consequence, even if lower corn prices might be advantageous to the growing urban populations in developing countries, who will have to pay less for their food, it will increase dependence of those countries on foreign imports and their exposure to market volatility.
